Shoemaker v. Board of Commissioners

This was an action commenced in the Grant Circuit Court, by the Board of Commissioners of Grant county and John Brownlee, plaintiffs, against John C. Shoe*177maker, Auditor of State, William Neal, auditor of Grant-county, and Reuel J. Gauntt, treasurer of Grant county,, defendants.

The complaint was filed April 10th, 1871, and on the same-day a temporary restraining order was granted prohibiting; the defendant Gauntt, as treasurer of Grant county, from, paying over certain state taxes collected by him to the treas- • urer of state.

The record shows that upon the filing of the complaint process…